Celebrating 10 Years of Healing Hearts
This past January, the University of Florida Health Congenital Heart Center celebrated 10 years of healing hearts for patients of all ages diagnosed with congenital heart defects……
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Critical Congenital Heart Disease
A Dying Orphan Gets Help from UF Health Surgeon
Even before Doug and Lori McCary finalized their adoption of Rachel, a young girl from China who was born with hypoplastic right heart syndrome, the McCarys found the UF Health Congenital Heart Center and Mark Bleiweis, M.D.,…
Answers in a Heartbeat
For families with children facing complicated congenital heart conditions, waiting for answers can prove torturous. Physicians with the UF Health Congenital Heart Center are shortening that wait, using technology to diagnose patients even if they are hundreds of miles away.
Fixing Broken Hearts
What are the chances that two kids who live across the street from each other would both use the Berlin Heart and each have heart transplants at UF Health?
Fast Facts
UF Health Congenital Heart Center Facts & Firsts 2019: U.S. News & World Report ranked the UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital among the top 15 pediatric cardiology and heart surgery programs in the United States, and highest-ranked in Florida for the fourth consecutive year.2018: U.S. News & World Report ranked the…
Celebrating CHD Awareness Week
During CHD Awareness Week, the Congenital Heart Center at UF will be tweeting (@UFCHC) and Facebooking (facebook.com/ufchc) information about congenital heart defects. February is the month to celebrate everything hearts. It’s American Heart Month and today starts Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week (Feb. 7-14), a national event aimed…
Our Team
At the UF Health Congenital Heart Center, our care team of physicians, nurses, physicians assistants, and nurse practitioners are among the best anywhere. US News & World Report ranked the UF Health Congenital Heart Center among the Top 15 pediatric cardiology and heart surgery centers in the country, and…
About Us
Learning your child has, or you have, a congenital heart condition is devastating; the diagnosis induces anxiety and fear and sets off a flurry of questions in your mind. No matter when the diagnosis occurs – whether in utero, at birth, in early childhood, or even…